Plants with medicinal uses!!!

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Many people don't know of the wonderful properties of so many household plants and herbs. They can be used for medicine, calming, and other various uses. Below if a list of the plants and what they can be used for, as well as how they should be used. Aloe: This plant can heal burns overnight. When burned, take a slice of the plants and lay it skin-side out on the burned area of flesh. Tape the aloe sliver in place overnight and the next day, your burn will no longer hurt. This works for small second degree burns, but if it is a 3rd degree burn, medical help should be sought. Arrowroot: When taken orally, this plant can treat poinsoning, diarrhea and indigestion. Black Cohosh: Taken orally, it can reduce menopause symptoms. It also has mildly sedative properties. Borage: This plant can be used in place of OTC drugs to reduce inflammation and as an expectorant. Calendula: Used in tea, this plant treats gastritis, and menstruations and menopause symptoms. When gargled, it can take the pain from tooth aches and canker sores. Catnip: Chewed or used in tea, this plant can be used to treat colds and upset stomachs. Chamomile: this plant has a sedative effect, but can be used to treat indigestion and cramps. Cloves: As well as being a spice, they can treat indigestion and diarrhea. Comfrey: This plant is used to soften skin. The leaves can be broken open and rubbed on the skin, or ground up and the juice rubbed on the skin instead. Echinacea: When sick, or getting sick, this plant helps to remove bacteria and viruses from the body. It is expecially useful for illnesses related to the upper respiratory tract. Eucalyptus: this plant can treat respiratory illness and skin problems, as well as working as an expectorant and cooling agent. Eye Bright: As the name says, it can be used to treat eye problems such as inflammation and light sensitivity. Feverfew: This plant can reduce fevers, headaches, and migraines when taken orally. Garlic: Eating this can reduce blood pressure and cholesterol. In addition, it can treat ring worm and thread worm. Ginger: Eating this can reduce fevers, sore throats, and muscle sprains. It can also be used as a decongestant. Ginseng: This can treat depression and raise blood pressure. Goldenseal: This plant can be used as a laxative or stomach tonic. Hydrangea: Taken orally, it can be used as a diuretic and has soothing effects. Lavander: The leaves of this plant, when eaten or drunk as tea, can have sedative effects, be used to treat depression, as well as intestinal cramps and gas. Licorice: This plant can be used as a laxative, expectorant, and can treat ulcers. Mints: This family of plants can be used as a muscle relaxant, and treat stomach pains and illnesses. It is best used as tea. Mulberry: The roots of this plant can be used as a laxative. Nightshade: The leaves of this plant can be crushed and used to treat 1st degree burns, abrasions and other skin irritations. Pennyroyal: When taken orally, it can be used to treat fever, nausea, gas, coughing, and digestive ailments. When rubbed on the skin, it can be an insect repellant. Sage: When gargled, it can treat canker sores. When used as a tea, it can treat sore throats, indigestion, colic, and fevers. When crushed, it can be rubbed on wounds. St Johns Wort: used mostly for treating depression, it can also treat pain and tension. Valerian: When taken orally, it can have sedative properties as well as treating menstrual symptoms and migraines. Plant this in an herb garden this year or around the hourse and forget about many OTC meds.